Micron 1GB/s SSD

Micron's SSD could break current records for internal storage

According to a Micron executive, within the next year, Micron technology expects to bring to market a high-end solid-state disk (SSD) drive that could achieve 1GB/sec throughput. The transfer speed is four times that offered by Intel's newest SSD, the X25-E.

This new SSD would actually use two solid-state drives that have 16 data channels. Performance exceeds 200,000 input/output operations per second (compared to the 30.000 IOPS of the currently fastest SSDs). Micron bypassed serial SATA (that would normally be used to plug SSDs) because of its 300MB/s limitation and used a PCI Express slot.

The price for this SSD is unknown, but it should enter production «soon».